Fast Estate Required
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Phil Dicky

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279 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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I need a fast interesting estate, around the 7k mark no older than an 04 and something not too common, I have the two below on a short list, any more suggestions?

Vectra VXR
Legacy Spec B

S3K04

138 posts

184 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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Audi S4 (B6)

chrisga

2,128 posts

203 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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156 GTA?

Liquid Knight

15,754 posts

199 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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Nissan Stagea.

You can close the thread now. wink

jimbobsimmonds

1,824 posts

181 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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Going to state the obvious here and pitch the V70 T5...

Phil Dicky

Original Poster:

7,193 posts

279 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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Phil Dicky said:
I need a fast interesting estate, around the 7k mark no older than an 04 and something not too common, I have the two below on a short list, any more suggestions?

Vectra VXR
Legacy Spec B
156GTA

Alfa added, but wil be doing high mileage will it cope with that?

jbi

12,692 posts

220 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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V8 power

Edited by jbi on Thursday 23 December 08:26

zakelwe

4,449 posts

214 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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AMG C43, C32 or E55 estates.

Andy

Pablo16v

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213 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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jbi said:


V8 power

Edited by jbi on Thursday 23 December 08:26
Can you get one for £7k though?

jbi

12,692 posts

220 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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seen the saloons going for 7k... done a quick search and found a couple low mileage examples under 10k

Im sure with a bit of looking you could find one

chrisga

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203 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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Phil Dicky said:
Alfa added, but will be doing high mileage will it cope with that?
Don't see why not, as long as you kept up to date with belts, servicing and oil levels. My wifes 156 sportwagon has done 125k now and everything still works on it (admittedly its not a gta though)!

Pablo16v

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213 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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greggers

208 posts

214 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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As far as the 156 GTA SW is concerned, it depends what your reason for having needing an estate is? Compared to a 3 Series Touring or Mondeo estate it has a lot less useable space. The back seats are apalling space wise especially if driver and front seat passenger are anything over 6ft.

If you want to do any spirited driving a Q2 diff is a must, if it has an original diff it will be a case of when rather than if it fails. Anything post 2004 should have the bigger brakes (330mm) which are much more up to the job than the 300mm and less prone to warp (although I have the smaller setup and have been fine so far).

There are alledgedly less than 100 GTA Sportwagons in the country so the rarity value is there, I looked at Stageas and Legnums but couldn't get the insurance for a sensible price at the time, them being a Jap import.

chrisga

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203 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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greggers said:
There are alledgedly less than 100 GTA Sportwagons in the country so the rarity value is there,
Didnt realise that. I know of at least two in villages surrounding me!

greggers

208 posts

214 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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chrisga said:
greggers said:
There are alledgedly less than 100 GTA Sportwagons in the country so the rarity value is there,
Didnt realise that. I know of at least two in villages surrounding me!
In that case you must live in an extremely nice area.

Someone on the Alfa Owner forum did a check in 2006 and there were 107 Sportwagons so I stand corrected on my initial quote of 100, saying that there are probably less than 100 left now.

TheGreatSoprendo

5,287 posts

265 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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masermartin

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193 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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Saab 9-5 Aero? OK so they aren't the newest or best handling of chassis but you would get a very comfy and well spec'd big barge for not a lot of your 7k. Thought I'd throw that in.

y2blade

56,232 posts

231 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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Volvo V70R cloud9


Spoof

1,854 posts

231 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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y2blade said:
Volvo V70R cloud9
yes

anonymous-user

70 months

Thursday 23rd December 2010
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Legacy Spec B or GTB or Twinscroll